Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

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Jesse Eisenberg

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 5, 1983

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

Jesse Eisenberg

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

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I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

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Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

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Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

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The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

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The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

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I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

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I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

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I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

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Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

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I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

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As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

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I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

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I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

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I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

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The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

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I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

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I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

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